United States and British officers in Germany during World War II. United States and British soldiers march with the American and the British flag. U.S. aircraft parked in the background. Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe General Dwight D Eisenhower along with staff walks on a runway at an airfield. Commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe General Carl Andrew Spaatz and British Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder walk towards General Eisenhower. The officers salute General Eisenhower. A U.S. soldier stands with a flag in hand. General Eisenhower shakes hands with officers and converses with them. United States Army Air Force General James Harold Doolittle stands with other British officers. An aircraft parked on the ground. A tent pitched on a field with soldiers in the foreground.
Activities of 8th Fighter Air Force Command in Berlin, Germany during World War II. A fleet of United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over German targets on the ground. Explosions on the ground. U.S. fighter command aircraft in Berlin. A fleet of P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings and P-47 Thunderbolts of the USAAF fly in formation above clouds. United States airplanes destroy German aircraft. Explosions in the air. A United States pilot seated in a cockpit.
Activities of 8th Fighter Air Force Command in Germany during World War II. United States tanks advance towards the enemy. A fleet of P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning aircraft of the United States Army Air Force fly above German grounds. Pictures of General Kepner, Captain Neil, Major Bob Johnson and other fighter pilots of the United States Army Air Force.
Bombed out cities in Germany during World War II. Aerial view of damaged cities and fields. Two aircraft in flight. United States troops stand at attention at Frankfurt Airport. An officer holds the American flag. United States President Harry S. Truman disembarks from a United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft.
British in Hong Kong and U.S. Marines in Tianjin, China. A view of coastal area in Hong Kong. A landscape view of Hong Kong. British troops return to Hong Kong. British soldiers escort a Japanese prisoner of war. Japanese prisoners of war clear up the waste articles under a building. British Navy watching the prisoners cleaning buildings. Japanese prisoners pile debris and put to fire. Captured Japanese troops walk along the street after the British resumed control of Hong Kong. People gathered near a harbor in Tianjin, China. Chinese civilians gather and cheer to welcome the United States Marines. Views of U.S. Navy ships in Chinese harbor. Crowd cheers and applauds. Landing ships in the Hai River. Chinese citizens in crowd wave hands toward the United States Marines. Chinese children carry and wave American flags and cheer. United States Marines watch the crowd and smile. Marines throw cigarettes to Chinese civilians. Soldiers restrict the crowd scrambling for cigarettes and candies. (World War II period).
Filmed shortly before the Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. A view of the devastated city of Berlin shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe. Aerial views of bomb damaged Berlin and point of view shots from a moving car passing destruction, rubble, and skeletons of buildings from bomb damage. U.S. President Harry Truman surveying the damage from an open car, and view of his car approaching the Brandenburg Gate and driving on the Unter den Linden. Three flag towers each decorated at the base with an image of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. U.S. President Harry S. Truman is riding through Berlin with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov. Flashback shows German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler parading in Berlin. People crowd on either side of a street to cheer. Close up back and side profile view of Hitler as he stands in a moving car waving to the crowd. Hitler speaking at a Nazi Rally, forcefully and animated, about Germany wiping out inferior races, and decrying America's society of mixed people, saying that it has a ridiculous notion of equality and freedom that cannot stand up against Germany. The German people in the hall applaud. Truman speaks into a microphone in Germany after the war. U.S. delegates stand in the background. A radio tower. A U.S. military serviceman operating controls for the radio broadcast. People in the U.S. listen to President Truman speaking from a Berlin Radio Station. A hand on a typewriter. People of the United States in groups listening to radio: Men gathered at a city store listening to the radio speech; a woman typist listening to the radio beside her typewriter; men in a rural general store gathered around a radio near a wood stove; farmers listening to a radio; office workers gathered around a radio; a family in a living room listens to the radio; group of U.S. Army soldiers gathered to listen to the radio . Truman speaking on the grounds of the United States Group Control Council Headquarters in Berlin. He is in a courtyard that had been the home of the German Air Defense for Berlin. An honor guard from Company 'E' of the 41st Infantry is present, along with Secretary Stimpson, Assistant Secretary McCloy, and Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Clay, and Bradley. Soldiers stand in formation in the background. He speaks about peace in the world during the ceremony raising the United States flag over the U.S. controlled area of Berlin. His words included the statement, "Let's not forget that we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind. We're not fighting for conquest."